Archive for June 2010

Enthu­si­asm and Ded­i­ca­tion Drive Part­ner­ship for Suc­cess As Pres­i­dent of one of Delaware’s largest inde­pen­dent insur­ance agen­cies, L & W Insur­ance, Board of Trustee mem­ber and ded­i­cated Wes­ley dad William J. Strick­land has already proven to be a nat­ural fit to lead Wesley’s most ded­i­cated constituents.

Although she eas­ily blends in with her fel­low stu­dents at the Stu­dent Gov­ern­ment Asso­ci­a­tion (SGA) meet­ing or when she’s assist­ing with Ori­en­ta­tion pro­gram­ming for next year’s fresh­man class, Veron­ica Conte is not your ordi­nary coed.

Founders Day Food Drive For Wesley’s 137th Founders Day cel­e­bra­tion, the plan­ning com­mit­tee inte­grated a com­mu­nity ser­vice project as a demon­stra­tion of the College’s Methodist val­ues and his­tory of ser­vice to the area. Gro­cery bags were dis­trib­uted around cam­pus to fac­ulty, staff and stu­dents as well as area res­i­dents so that par­tic­i­pants could col­lect non-perishable food […]

BY LEIGH ANN COLEMAN ’09 Alum­nus William “Bill” Willis, Jr. ’66 and proud Wes­ley par­ent Kath­leen Jen­nings became the newest mem­bers of the Wes­ley Col­lege Board of Trustees in March. “I am elated that Ms. Jen­nings and Mr. Willis have joined Wesley’s Trustees. They bring tal­ents and expe­ri­ence that will com­ple­ment our Board as we […]

It is near impos­si­ble to get a nation, let alone the world, to com­mit to a new lifestyle unless it has been done before and proven to be suc­cess­ful. After over 50 years in real estate and devel­op­ment, Fred Spain ’58 is in the midst of show­ing the nation how it’s done.

BY ABIGAIL HILL ’12 The Well­ness Cen­ter at Wes­ley is new and improved in 2010. Its pur­pose has always been to pro­vide free, qual­ity health­care ser­vices on cam­pus so stu­dents don’t have to out­source their med­ical needs. Now how­ever, hav­ing recently relo­cated to the base­ment of Car­pen­ter Hall, the Cen­ter is much bet­ter equipped to meet […]

The Res­i­dence Hall Asso­ci­a­tion is There to Help BY EMILY ENNIS ’10 For an incom­ing fresh­man, adjust­ing to dorm life can be a scary expe­ri­ence. The toi­let is over­flow­ing. Now what? My room­mate is a bully. Who can help me? Luck­ily, the newly instated Res­i­dence Hall Asso­ci­a­tion (RHA) exists to help with these prob­lems and other issues […]

Wes­ley Ath­let­ics Relo­cates to ‘Lit­tle School’ The Wes­ley Col­lege Ath­let­ics Depart­ment recently found a new home, as sev­eral offices were relo­cated to what was for­merly the Lit­tle School on North Queen Street in Dover. When the Lit­tle School moved in 2009 from its old loca­tion to a new build­ing on Mont Blanc Boule­vard in Dover, […]

Michele Mules ’10 BY ABIGAIL HILL ’12 When Michele Mules ’10 came to Wes­ley Col­lege, she came with a men­tal check­list. She wanted a small school, Divi­sion III ath­let­ics and pro­fes­sors with heart. She also is a young woman with her eyes set on the prize. After just grad­u­at­ing from Wes­ley in May, she feels satisfied […]